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Rod Stewart

2015

Jeff Golub, the longtime jazz, blues and rock guitarist who played on albums by Rod Stewart and Billy Squier alongside his own solo work, died on Thursday at the age of 59, according to Jazz Times.
While the exact cause of death remains unknown,...

2014

Ron Wood is the latest rock icon to take a cold shower for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. As Ultimate Classic Rock reports, the Rolling Stones guitarist offered himself up to the good cause with humor and theatrical gestures on Sunday...

Carlos Santana recently surprised the audience at a Rod Stewart concert in Las Vegas, when he came onstage to play the slow-burning blues song "I'd Rather Go Blind," which Stewart had recorded on 1972's Never a Dull Moment. The guitarist added soulful,...

"I don't know if this is legal in the city limits of Seattle," said sonic chameleon Beck Hansen onstage during his Wednesday night show in Redmond, Washington. He didn't light up a joint mid-song or take off his clothes during a set-break –...

In November 1976, Rod Stewart headed to Europe to tour in support of his new album A Night on the Town. "The band and I were only just getting to know each other," he later told the Daily Mirror. "For about three weeks I was staying out all night. Then...

2013

Although Rod Stewart has talked about the possibility of a Faces reunion in 2015, nobody seems to have told keyboardist Ian McLagan or drummer Kenney Jones. McLagan dismissed the idea of reconvening, telling Uncut magazine, as reported by NME, that...

On September 3rd, Universal Music will release a brand new Rod Stewart collection, Rarities, a two-disc set packed with alternative versions of hit songs, non-LP singles, b-sides, studio outtakes, covers (including his takes on the Who's "Pinball...

Pete Sears is a lucky man. Almost 40 years after losing his bass during a concert riot in Germany, he has been reunited with his one-of-a kind instrument made by Doug Irwin and Tom Lieber, the famed luthiers who built guitars for Jerry Garcia of the Grateful...

Cee Lo Green will return to The Voice next month to perform, along with Rod Stewart, Pharrell Williams, T.I., Lady Antebellum and Robin Thicke. Green and Stewart will perform on May 8th, according to The Associated Press, while Williams, T.I., Lady Antebellum...

Rod Stewart will release a new album Time May 7th on Capitol Records, marking his first album of new material in almost 20 years. Stewart wrote and produced 11 of the album's 12 cuts, while the iTunes deluxe edition – which you can pre-order...

Rod Stewart recently told Boston radio station WZLX that the Faces – the bluesy rock group he and current Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood joined after they came to prominence together in the Jeff Beck Group – would likely return to the stage...

Black Sabbath have topped the U.K. albums chart for the first time in nearly 43 years, setting a record for the longest gap between Number One albums. The band's latest, 13, entered the Official U.K. Albums Chart in the top spot, 42 years and...

Last night, Elton John performed at the 20th annual Race To Erase MS benefit in Los Angeles. The event is put on by activist and author Nancy Davis to raise funds and awareness for the fight against multiple sclerosis. It's grown considerably since its...

Writing his 2012 autobiography inspired Stewart to pen 11 of the 12 songs on his forthcoming album, Time – his first to feature original material in nearly 20 years. The album might be an unexpected move for rock's greatest interpretive singer,...

2012

The Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood married fiancée Sally Humphries in London last Friday, The Sun reports. Last month, the Daily Mail reported the couple showed up at the British Fashion Awards sporting matching silver bands, sparking speculation...

Rod Stewart is one of rock's all-time great vocalists. His brief tenure in the Jeff Beck group laid the groundwork for Led Zeppelin, and his early 1970s work (both solo and with the Faces) remains criminally underrated. His output over the past thirty...

Cee Lo Green will get a hand from Rod Stewart, the Muppets and other guests when he performs tracks from his upcoming holiday LP at Las Vegas' Planet Hollywood on October 10th.
Dubbed "Cee Lo and Friends," the one-night engagement will also feature...

WINNER OF THE WEEK: The Christmas Cage Match. Rod Stewart's Merry Christmas, Baby had emerged as the early holiday-season favorite, wavering around Number Three and Number Four since it came out in October. But look out! Michael Buble is taking the loaf...